Rahul Deepani

SRCC, IIM-C, Google, YouTube!

Theatre, Cinema and Markets. Co-founder SocksWocks.

[Rahul Deepani @RahulDeepani]

कभी किसी को मुकम्मल जहाँ नहीं मिलता,
कहीं ज़मीन तो कहीं आसमान नहीं मिलता।

[Rahul Deepani @RahulDeepani]

@MCD_Delhi status for original payment as "partially paid". I think the archaic system is reading the 'over-payment' as 'partial payment' considering the exemption update made in owner's profile. Can you help fix this and guide with the refund process please?

Thanks!cc @LtGovDelhi (2/2)

[Rahul Deepani @RahulDeepani]

@MCD_Delhi Hi team, while paying the property tax online for a family member we missed opting for the senior citizen rebate and ended up over-paying the total amount.After payment, we updated the customer profile to reflect the exemption and now your website is showing the (1/2)

[Uday Kotak @udaykotak]

Google which is cash surplus, just announced an additional capital raise of $80 bn.
Google annual profit is $160 bn, last quarter $62 bn, and market cap $4.5 trillion. That is close to total profits and market cap of all Indian listed companies put together.
It’s a wake up call to all companies to invest into the future, whatever the present maybe.
Now that IPL is done and dusted, time for India to focus on business of business.

[Rahul Deepani @RahulDeepani]

No same sorry.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

This is an unbelievable piece of work by Sarthak and something that requires amplification.

Let me explain what he found, in simple terms.

Sarthak is a Class 12 student from the 2025-26 batch, one of the 17 lakh students whose answer sheets went through CBSE's new On-Screen Marking system.

He spent days reading through CBSE's evaluation tenders, scraped all 576 tenders CBSE has issued, and tracked how the rules changed across three versions of the same tender.

The core finding is that the company that won the contract to scan and grade 17 lakh students' answer sheets is Coempt Eduteck.

Coempt used to be called Globarena Technologies. Globarena was the company behind the 2019 Telangana intermediate exam disaster, where software failures led to 3.8 lakh students getting wrong or missing marks, and 23 students died by suicide.

A government committee found systemic failure and negligence. Six months later, Globarena rebranded to Coempt Eduteck.

So a company with that track record won a contract to handle 17 lakh CBSE students. Sarthak's investigation is about how the rules were rewritten to let that happen.

The tender was issued three times.

> First tender, February 2025. It existed, then disappeared from the public GeM portal. Sarthak scraped all 576 CBSE tenders and this one was missing from the archive entirely.

> Second tender, May 2025. Four companies applied including TCS and Coempt. All four failed the technical evaluation. Cancelled.

> Third tender, August 2025. Coempt won. Between the second and third tender, a series of rule changes happened, and every single one made it easier for Coempt to qualify.

Here is what changed, one by one.

01. The old rules disqualified any company with a history of abandoning work, failing to complete contracts, or financial weakness. The new rules deleted this clause entirely. Coempt's Telangana history stopped being a barrier.

02. The old rules disqualified any company that was "blacklisted earlier." The new rules changed this to "currently blacklisted." Because Globarena rebranded after Telangana, removing the word "earlier" effectively erased their past.

03. The rules required Rs 50 crore average turnover over three years. Coempt's exact average came to Rs 50.86 crore. They cleared the bar by less than 1%. Earlier, a smaller company had asked CBSE to lower the bar to Rs 30 crore for fairer competition. CBSE refused. So the bar was kept high enough to block small players, but sat exactly low enough for Coempt to scrape through.

04. Software maturity is measured on the CMMI scale, 1 to 5. The old rules required Level 5. The new rules dropped it to Level 3. Coempt is a Level 3 company.

05. The cooling-off period for engaging retired CBSE officials was cut from two years to one. This makes it easier to use recently retired insiders to influence the process.

06. The old rules required experience with large projects of at least 5 lakh students each. The new rules removed the student count and counted cumulative answer-book volume across small projects instead. Coempt has many small fragmented university contracts. This helped Coempt and hurt TCS.

07. The old rules required bidders to own their own data centre and disaster recovery centre on Indian soil. The new rules allowed third-party MeitY-empanelled cloud hosting. Coempt runs on AWS and Azure. This helped Coempt and hurt TCS, which owns its own data centres. It also means student data is no longer on sovereign, Indian infrastructure.

08. The old rules required the bidder to own or control the complete source code of its software. The new rules deleted this. Coempt's platform runs on Microsoft's proprietary IIS, which they don't own.

09. A last-minute corrigendum, issued right before bid submission, removed CBSE's own power to blacklist the firm if its software failed catastrophically. So even a Telangana-scale failure couldn't get Coempt banned from future government tenders.

10. The penalty structure shifted from punishing mistakes to punishing delays. The old rules fined the vendor for wrong scanning, merged pages, and unscanned books. The new rules dropped those and instead levied Rs 50,000 per day for delays. This incentivises rushed scanning over accurate scanning.

11. The old rules had a hard accuracy threshold, error rate not to exceed 0.5%. The new rules removed this number entirely.

12. The old rules specified proper book and robotics scanners. The new rules just say "sufficient scanners." The definition was vague enough that, as Sarthak notes, the scanning could be done with a phone on a stand.

13. On the security side, the contract required a VAPT (vulnerability and penetration test) certified by CERT-In before go-live, and a restricted beta phase before launch. The system clearly wasn't restricted, because the other researcher, Nisarga, was able to access it and find vulnerabilities four days before go-live. So the mandatory security audit appears to have been bypassed.

These are more than a dozen rule changes, all between the failed tender and the winning tender, all pushing in the same direction, all benefiting the one company with the worst track record in the field.

The security holes Nisarga found last week now have an explanation. The system was built by a vendor that was specifically allowed to skip the security certification, the source code ownership, the data sovereignty, and the quality thresholds the original rules demanded.

Following things need to happen immediately;

1. An immediate CAG audit of the tender process.
2. A parliamentary debate on the topic.
3. An independent investigation into
> Why the first tender vanished?
> Why the disqualification clauses were deleted?
> Why the turnover bar was held exactly where it was?
> Why the security level was dropped?
> Why the blacklisting power was removed at the last moment?

Sarthak, this is genuinely exceptional investigative work. Far better than most journalists with full resources ever manage. Take a bow. :)

[Rahul Deepani @RahulDeepani]

होइहि सोइ जो रा�� रचि राखा। को करि तर्क बढ़ावै साखा॥

[Basant Baheti @BasantBaheti3]

Your Parents Are Getting Older.

30 Things To Do With Them Before Time Moves On.

1. Record their voice telling a story. One day that voice becomes a sound you can never hear again.

Brutal thread:

📸 CAPTURE THEM

2. Film them laughing. Not posing. Laughing. That footage will be priceless when the house gets quiet.

3. Take a photo with them doing absolutely nothing. The ordinary ones hurt the most when they become memories.

4. Ask them to write their name on paper. Keep it. Handwriting is the most personal thing that disappears first.

5. Photograph their hands. Those hands built everything you are. One day you'll trace the photo and feel them again.

💬 ASK THEM

6. "What was the happiest day of your life?" Their answer will probably surprise you. And break you a little.

7. "What did you dream of becoming before life happened?" They had dreams before they had you. Honor that.

8. "What's the hardest thing you never told me about?" Their silence carried weight so your childhood wouldn't.

9. "How did you and mom/dad fall in love?" You exist because of a love story you've never fully heard.

10. "What do you wish you'd done differently?" Not for judgment. For understanding. They're human too.

🖤 FEEL WITH THEM

11. Cook their favorite meal together. Not for them. With them. The kitchen remembers everything.

12. Watch their favorite old movie together. Let them narrate it. Their commentary is the real film.

13. Sit with them in silence. No phone. No TV. Just presence. They don't need your conversation. They need your company.

14. Hold their hand for no reason. They held yours when you couldn't walk. Return the gesture before time takes it away.

15. Hug them longer than usual today. Count to 20. Let the awkwardness melt. That's not a hug. That's a timestamp.

🗺️ EXPERIENCE WITH THEM

16. Take them to the place they grew up. Watch their eyes become young again for a few minutes.

17. Go for a slow walk together. Match their pace. The world looks different at their speed.

18. Drive them somewhere without telling them where. Surprise your parents. They spent decades surprising you.

19. Eat at the restaurant they went to on their first date. Some places hold love that Google reviews can't rate.

20. Travel with them once. Just once. Before their body says no. The trip doesn't have to be fancy. It has to happen.

📝 GIVE THEM

21. Write them a letter by hand. Not a birthday card. A real letter. Words they'll read when you're not in the room.

22. Say "thank you for everything" and mean every syllable. They've been waiting to hear it longer than you know.

23. Tell them you're proud of them. Children never say this. But parents need to hear it just as much as you did.

24. Apologize for the years you didn't understand them. You were young. They were tired. Both things were true.

25. Tell them you love them today. Not on a holiday. Not on their birthday. Today. Ordinary I-love-you's hit the hardest.

👑 HONOR THEM

26. Learn their recipe. The one they make from memory. Write it down. That recipe is a bloodline in a bowl.

27. Frame a photo of them from when they were your age. They were young once. They had dreams once. Remember that.

28. Ask them to teach you one thing they're good at. Let them feel needed. That feeling disappears as kids grow up.

29. Introduce them to your world. Your music. Your friends. Your dreams. Let them see who you became because of them.

30. Put your phone down right now and go sit next to them. Don't say anything. Don't plan anything. Just be there. Because one day you'll walk into their room and the chair will be empty. The house will be quiet. The phone will never ring from that number again. And you'll wish more than anything in this world that you could have one more ordinary boring meaningless day with them. Today is that day. Don't waste it.

[Ranvir Shorey @RanvirShorey]

One of the most talented and underrated actors of the country! Besides that, he also doesn’t get enough credit for being one of the pioneers of great digital content in India! @gauravgera is a genius and a powerhouse of talent, and I’m glad the world is finally waking up to him! 🙌🏽🫶🏽👊🏽

[Luke Coutinho @LukeCoutinho17]

What if I tell you no amount of diet or exercise will reduce your belly fat until you do this.

Every week I meet patients who eat clean, exercise but still struggle with belly fat.

When I look deeper, the issue is not diet. It is their nervous system.

See nutrition and exercise is important.
But if your nervous system is stuck in chronic stress mode your body shifts into survival biology. You may not want it to. But that is biology.

Cortisol stays elevated. Insulin regulation changes. Fat storage signals increase especially around the abdomen. Sleep quality drops.

The nervous system is constantly in fight or flight, positive stress negative stress does not matter, your body starts storing fat around the midsection.

Why?

Because visceral fat is metabolically active. It helps the body manage stress hormones.

Your body stores fat exactly where it can use it fastest to handle the threat it thinks you are under.

Your body will not prioritise fat loss when it is trying to survive.

This is why real health is not just about what you eat.
It is about your sleep quality.
How you regulate your emotions and h ow you slow down your nervous system.

Because a regulated nervous system changes your metabolism.

Sometimes the problem is not your diet. Sometimes the problem is not your exercise.
Sometimes the problem is your body never feels safe enough to let go.

#bellyfat #fatloss #weighloss #potbelly

[Rahul Deepani @RahulDeepani]

Best!

[Google @Google]

Today @GoogleMaps is getting its biggest upgrade in over a decade. By combining our Gemini models with a deep understanding of the world, Maps now unlocks entirely new possibilities for how you navigate and explore. Here’s what you need to know 🧵

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[Rahul Deepani @RahulDeepani]

जिन्हें जल्दी थीं वो चले गए,
कृपया यहां ज्ञान ना दे यहां सब ज्ञानी हैं ,
एक दिन मर जाओगे, सब ठीक हो जाएगा।

- सौरभ द्विवेदी

[Rahul Deepani @RahulDeepani]

sometimes the detour is the path.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Sundar just told you Google is becoming an infrastructure company and nobody’s repricing.

The victory lap covers $400B in annual revenue, 18% growth, and 48% cloud acceleration. The numbers are legitimately excellent. Beat on both top and bottom lines.

But the number he slipped in quietly is the one that matters: $175 to $185 billion in 2026 capex. Wall Street was modeling $119.5 billion. Google just told the market it plans to spend 50% more than anyone expected, and nearly double what it spent in 2025.

Put that in perspective. There are only 59 companies in the S&P 500 that Alphabet couldn’t outright purchase with one year’s capex budget. This is infrastructure spending on the scale of a mid-sized nation’s GDP.

The stock tells you everything about how the market processed this. It dropped 7% in minutes after the print, then clawed back to down ~3%. Investors loved the earnings. They panicked at the spend. Because $180 billion in capex means free cash flow gets compressed even as revenue grows. Operating cash flow rose 34% this quarter, but free cash flow barely moved because capex ate every incremental dollar.

Google Cloud’s $240 billion backlog, up 55% sequentially, is the justification. They signed more billion-dollar deals in 2025 than the previous three years combined. Cloud revenue grew 48%, margins expanded to 30%. This is real demand from real customers. The spend has receipts.

The question investors are actually asking: is Google transitioning from a 30%+ margin ad business into a capital-intensive infrastructure provider that happens to run ads? Because Meta’s 2026 capex guide is $115-135B. Microsoft is at ~$150B annualized. Google just outbid them all.

Pichai mentioned they cut Gemini serving costs by 78% over 2025. That efficiency gain is real. But when your response to 78% cost reduction is to double your infrastructure budget, you’re telling the market you see demand curves that justify spending at a scale nobody else is willing to match.

The ad business is still the engine. Search grew 17%. But YouTube ads missed estimates. The growth story is quietly shifting from “best ad platform ever built” to “best AI infrastructure play with an ad business attached.”

That’s the trade Wall Street is trying to figure out tonight.

[Rahul Deepani @RahulDeepani]

कर्ता करे ना कर सके, शिव करे सो होय।
तीनों लोक नौ खंड में, शिव से बड़ा न कोय।।

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

🇮🇳 Good morning India! A lot of you asked for full-length mock JEE Main tests in @GeminiApp at no cost - done! Good luck on your prep!

Last week, SAT. This week, JEE.

What other global exams would be most helpful?

[Rahul Deepani @RahulDeepani]

@drpankajbjp @TransportDelhi @LtGovDelhi

Urgent request: DL Renewal App# 5394305725 stuck at "BACKENDAPR3" (Wazirpur RTO) for a ~1month now. Process is 'Contactless' but file is pending manual approval.

Requesting urgent intervention from Hon. Dr. Pankaj Kumar's office.

[Rahul Deepani @RahulDeepani]

(Gentle)men don't record & post...

[Introvert @Introvert_hu_ji]

Men scroll, Men see, Men respect 🫡

[Rahul Deepani @RahulDeepani]

Since the beginning itself....huh @JimCarreyeuge1

[𝖪𝖾𝗇𝗂𝖺 𝗅𝗈 𝗁𝖺𝖼𝖾 𝗍𝗈𝖽𝗈 𝗆𝖺𝗅 @RelatocuriosoK]

Jim Carrey, Navidad de 1967.